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    Previous Bachelors degree going into nursing - Should I do BSN or ADN???

    PMFB-RN replied to k.ronning's topic in General Nursing

    Fist you must understand that in nursing your previous bachelors degree will mean nothing. It will not give you a leg up in being hired or promoted. In your sitiation I would do the
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    Is nursing shortage a myth?

    PMFB-RN replied to Angitia's topic in General Students

    There is no shortage of nurses. There haven't been more than local, temporary shortages in the 15 years I have been a nurse. You are responsible for your choices and decisions. Where I about to...
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    How did you get into the ICU?

    PMFB-RN replied to missbutton's topic in MICU, SICU

    *** Did you forget to take your
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    *Vent* RN's make toast?!?!?!

    PMFB-RN replied to WickedRedRN's topic in General Nursing

    *** Sure, every once in a while. It's a 26 bed unit and every meal 1 or 2 trays are sent to the unit for patients that can eat. Sometimes we are just holding them waiting for them to be transfered...
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    *Vent* RN's make toast?!?!?!

    PMFB-RN replied to WickedRedRN's topic in General Nursing

    *** I work in the ICU and I would be (and have) very happy to make some toast, or other food for my patient. These poor guys who have been NPO for a procedure and now it's 0300 in the AM and they are...
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    Can anyone give me insight to Marshfield?

    PMFB-RN replied to tizmonster's topic in General Nursing

    *** The hospital decided, in a move they claimed was for cost cutting, to get rid of their advanced practice nurses. About the only advanced practice nurses they employed where clinical nurse...
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    Needing a BSN to practice in WI

    PMFB-RN replied to javawren_23's topic in General Nursing

    I think there are few states that care less about an RNs entry to practice than Wisconsin. In Wisconsin my experience has been that they care what you know, not how you came to know it. I work at one...
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    *Vent* RN's make toast?!?!?!

    PMFB-RN replied to WickedRedRN's topic in General Nursing

    Is there a competency for proper, per-policy toaster use, including a computer based training? Has the toaster been cleared for use by bio-med? If not then I don't see how an RN can be qualified to...
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    Magnet - Turnoff For Anyone Else?

    PMFB-RN posted a topic in General Nursing

    So this weekend several of us ICU nurses where talking about our hospital's recent Magnet re-certification. All of us found it to be distasteful. We where told exactly what to say if questioned by the...
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    Magnet - Turnoff For Anyone Else?

    PMFB-RN replied to PMFB-RN's topic in General Nursing

    *** Well at least locally it is starting to backfire on them. I hope that backlash becomes more widespread. My hope is that if most nurses, like you, recognize that Magnet actually tells you nothing...
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    Just Hired into a Med-Surg unit...and am TERRIFIED!

    PMFB-RN replied to HeatherGurl84's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Relax, they are expecting a new grad, not an experienced nurse. You are not the first new grad they have trained. Don't worry about having graduated last May. You didn't really learn much about...
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    How did you get into the ICU?

    PMFB-RN replied to missbutton's topic in MICU, SICU

    *** I don't know about every place but in my part of the country med-surg experience is the last thing our managers want to see for an ICU applicant. I work in a large Magnet, teaching, tertiary care...
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    Magnet - Turnoff For Anyone Else?

    PMFB-RN replied to PMFB-RN's topic in General Nursing

    *** But isn't the whole point of Magnet that you can make assumtions about the certified
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    Have double degrees but need career options...Help please!

    PMFB-RN replied to crosstrainer's topic in Nursing Career

    *** Ok, in that case I think you should be trying to get a job in a neuro/trauma ICU, CVICU, or even better a unit that combines both neuro/trauma and
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    Jehovah's Witness nurses in the critical care unit?

    PMFB-RN replied to asdf88's topic in Critical Care

    There are at least two JW RNs in the SICU where I work. They administer, draw and clean up blood all the time. I didn't even relaize there was a religious problem with giving blood. I have never hear...
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    Have double degrees but need career options...Help please!

    PMFB-RN replied to crosstrainer's topic in Nursing Career

    In my opinion you should be looking for a bedside staff RN job. Nobody wants to learn from a nurse who has never done the
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    18 y/o RN!

    PMFB-RN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Last week while at work I met a very bright young woman. I noticed how young she looked and that her name badge said RN so I had to ask. She is 18 years old. She graduated at age 17 from a 2...
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    is a BSN going to soon be required?

    PMFB-RN replied to JeniRN's topic in General Nursing

    *** The bachelors degree in nursing does not teach advanced nursing. The bachelors degree RN is no more prepared for entry level nursing than graduates of the other entry paths into nursing. I precept...
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    Seems To Be Plenty Of RN Jobs In Iowa

    PMFB-RN posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    I spent a little while browsing the websites of hospitals in Iowa. Seems to be plenty of jobs, if you don't mind very low pay. Here is the site for University of Iowa hospital jobs. I note that the...
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    is a BSN going to soon be required?

    PMFB-RN replied to JeniRN's topic in General Nursing

    *** The other thing to consider is that you may very well not want to work for a Magnet hospital. Magnet hospitals are gaining a reputation as not being good employers and not being good places to...
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    is a BSN going to soon be required?

    PMFB-RN replied to JeniRN's topic in General Nursing

    *** Diabetes educator does not require a BSN. Not one of the DEs in my medical center has a
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    Does being called a male nurse annoy you?

    PMFB-RN replied to freefalle's topic in Men in Nursing

    Man you gotta learn not to sweat the little
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    Southwest Technical College Fennimore, WI LPN to RN

    PMFB-RN replied to adom's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you so much for your reply. I just got accepted into the part-time route there starting Aug. 2011. I won't be done until May of 2013..uuuggghhh! Oh well, I live in Madison so it's quite a hike...
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    Southwest Technical College Fennimore, WI LPN to RN

    PMFB-RN replied to adom's topic in General Nursing

    *** I did their LPN to RN in two semesters. It was a good school, though with it's share of trivial drama. They do all their clinical in tiny, 25 bed rural hospitals. I went directly from there to a...
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    Sick and tired of the AAS BSN debate

    PMFB-RN replied to Natingale's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I work at an academic medical center. We have Magnet (whoop-ti-do). I have a BSN but I didn't when they hired me. We have a 7 month nurse residency for new grads going into speciality units and we...